Originally posted by SoulStain

Originally posted by Dakeru

Innovative? Maybe.

Yet I don't have the slightest urge to play a game that wants me to cut my penis off.

You get to keep your gun my friend.....it's just no longer capable of carrying its ammo. Castration takes away the testicles...not the whole unit.

Lol, the amount of people that actually think castration means cutting the penis off is unreal. None stop to actually think how you would go to the toilet.

Yeah, it's the testicles that go into the jar.

Originally posted by Rimmersman

Originally posted by SoulStain

Originally posted by Dakeru

Innovative? Maybe.

Yet I don't have the slightest urge to play a game that wants me to cut my penis off.

You get to keep your gun my friend.....it's just no longer capable of carrying its ammo. Castration takes away the testicles...not the whole unit.

Lol, the amount of people that actually think castration means cutting the penis off is unreal. None stop to actually think how you would go to the toilet.

Yeah, it's the testicles that go into the jar.

Wait, what? I guess that means women really just go to the toilet to chat?

/sarcasm

Originally posted by crwynn

They're pulling these ultimate abilities from established wuxia lore. Both are from the novel "Xiao Ao Jiang Hu"  by Jin Yong.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongfang_Bubai - Sunflower manual

(In the books, said Invincible East uses a needle/hair pin when using skills from the sunflower manual I believe)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiling,_Proud_Wanderer - (search: Star Sucking Great Skill)

(From what I recall, said skill has a literal suction effect, and can basically drain the target of all his qi. What made it so fearsome was that this draining of qi was permanent (and additionally permamently increased the performer's own power as well). Though this is likely not the case in the game)

Exactly. The people commenting about how "lame" this is obviously do not follow wuxia mythos. It's been explored in wuxia movies for a long, long time as well. Swordsman II with Jet Li comes to mind when I think of this and the essence absorbing stance. Both were featured in that movie (transformation process and everything) and one was needed to defeat the other.

So the idea of two powerful martial arts manuals that teach the ultimate kung fu techniques being included in-game is a nod to wuxia fans and a great addition in the world of AoW. It can basically be compared to fighting over Excalibur or becoming the "one" like in the Highlander movies. It's suppose to promote conflict between players. And in regards to the whole chopping your bits off to gain ultimate power, it  is a conundrum present in many other wuxia films as well and is meant to serve as a big (and permenant) decision for players to make in-game.

Originally posted by Ramonski7

Originally posted by crwynn

They're pulling these ultimate abilities from established wuxia lore. Both are from the novel "Xiao Ao Jiang Hu"  by Jin Yong.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongfang_Bubai - Sunflower manual

(In the books, said Invincible East uses a needle/hair pin when using skills from the sunflower manual I believe)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiling,_Proud_Wanderer - (search: Star Sucking Great Skill)

(From what I recall, said skill has a literal suction effect, and can basically drain the target of all his qi. What made it so fearsome was that this draining of qi was permanent (and additionally permamently increased the performer's own power as well). Though this is likely not the case in the game)

Exactly. The people commenting about how "lame" this is obviously do not follow wuxia mythos. It's been explored in wuxia movies for a long, long time as well. Swordsman II with Jet Li comes to mind when I think of this and the essence absorbing stance. Both were featured in that movie (transformation process and everything) and one was needed to defeat the other.

So the idea of two powerful martial arts manuals that teach the ultimate kung fu techniques being included in-game is a nod to wuxia fans and a great addition in the world of AoW. It can basically be compared to fighting over Excalibur or becoming the "one" like in the Highlander movies. It's suppose to promote conflict between players. And in regards to the whole chopping your bits off to gain ultimate power, it  is a conundrum present in many other wuxia films as well and is meant to serve as a big (and permenant) decision for players to make in-game.

I thought i would bump this thread just to see what some of the late comers to Age Of Wushu think about this feature.

If you are new to this info then read the OP and what happens with these skills. They are not on the NA server yet and wont be for a while but it's a great topic for debate.

Originally posted by syntax42

It sounds like people are given an advantage for killing other players which allows them to kill other players better.  Tell me I'm wrong and the system described above doesn't do that.  I don't find it fun being on the receiving end of the killing.  I have a real job and I can't spend every hour of my day improving my advantage over other players just to be on a level playing field with everyone who doesn't have a real life.

 

The game looks great, but I think I will pass on it if what I'm guessing is true.

People like you are everything thats wrong with the genre right now. You don't wanna put in effort anywhere to reap any reward, you just want it all handed to you on a plate. 

Wow, awesome! :D

Sounds like a good game to create a PK guild in, maybe that would be fun.

Originally posted by Decadentia
Man, that's nuts.

Truly a ballsy move by whoever thought up the mechanic.

Just one thing.

"they can pay a fee to a NPC, who will give them tips of the holder who has the least positive relationship with the NPC. If the character is online, the NPC will give the paying players tips on his or her location in the game. For 2 prices, the player can choose to teleport to where the holder is or the nearest save point.

The above in yellow is just another epic simple innovational idea for a FFA PVP system, move over DarkFall"

That's incorrect, CCP did this 10 years ago.  They're called locator agents in EVE, and you can use them to find individuals with bounties to hunt down. 

The biggest difference being that I can find a specific individual in EVE and not who the NPC wants me to find.  It's neither innovative nor unique to AoW, it's a slightly different twist on something that's been present in another game for about a decade now. 

It's interesting, but not really that innovative. 

Originally posted by Rimmersman

and after castration, the character will have a decrement of 30% in movement speed for 1 day due to the pain…

You mean self-mutilation is now the Official Road To Hardcore?

That's much more badass than Looting corpses.  The mmomasochism club should flock right in, once they hear.

Ok well that finishes the game for me, I went form 80% interested to 0%. How lame can you get.

Originally posted by Ryukan
Do I get to keep my testicles and wear them as a pendant that gives +4 Charisma?

Balls and Chain

Item level 30

Binds when picked up

Neck

+4 Charisma

Requires level 27

"A testement to your commitment."

Originally posted by Cname

 

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Originally posted by AresPL this game is in wuxia theme so its normal You will see here things from novels   everyoen can learn clan or no clan   no idea what female will cut but they can learn it / saw screens from test server    

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There is nothing for female to cut.

 

Females can channel Sunflower skill without harm. But any man who doesn't 'cut it' will be driven crazy and eventually kill by it.

In Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series there is a somewhat similar concept where only female Aes Sedai can normally use the force call One Power. 

That's not because of the castration, but because the male version of the One Power in the books has been corrupted by evil though :)

About the castration, well, ... it takes BALLS to put that in your game nyarharharhar...

Originally posted by Rimmersman

Originally posted by SoulStain

Originally posted by Dakeru

Innovative? Maybe.

Yet I don't have the slightest urge to play a game that wants me to cut my penis off.

You get to keep your gun my friend.....it's just no longer capable of carrying its ammo. Castration takes away the testicles...not the whole unit.

Lol, the amount of people that actually think castration means cutting the penis off is unreal. None stop to actually think how you would go to the toilet.

Yeah, it's the testicles that go into the jar.

They confuse it with eviration. Anyway, why do so many people freak out at the idea that their avatar in a vg might lose his balls? Especially when it's completely optional and limited to a very few potential 'candidates'

Originally posted by erictlewis

Ok well that finishes the game for me, I went form 80% interested to 0%. How lame can you get.

Wow, you lost interest in a whole game, because of a single skill option that is a choice you make where some virtual testicles are removed.

Originally posted by Rimmersman

Lol, the game is meant to be brutal, you sign up for it or you don't, no one can blame ya if it's to much for you. It's not your typical get it all for no effort MMO lol.

The whole "if you don't like it then you want things hand-held/spoon-fed/no-effort" insult is getting really old.

Originally posted by Loktofeit

Originally posted by Rimmersman

Lol, the game is meant to be brutal, you sign up for it or you don't, no one can blame ya if it's to much for you. It's not your typical get it all for no effort MMO lol.

The whole "if you don't like it then you want things hand-held/spoon-fed/no-effort" insult is getting really old.

It's not an insult, it's a category statement

My only complaint about castration is that it seems gimmicky and cheesy. Toss loss of virginity into that as well. While there is some historical significance, it just seems like a system meant to impress a sort of less mature audience.

I mean, it just seems a bit silly to me. I'm still having fun with the game though. It's a very strange game with or without castration.